Hatchet  

*shrug* when I started wood working I had 1 stack of hatchets ... I am now lvl 48.3 wood working (about 3 months due to lack of being able to get on) and I have about half that stack still. I would go logging for between 2-8 hours at a time, and not even break one but after 8 hours i would break one once in a while.

I think SE may have been playing around with how often hatches break in the update. I can usually make a stack last for a couple hours of steady logging. My last two stacks have only lasted about an hour. It's still not as bad as pickaxes, but really annoying.

With a full set of level one field gear in less than 5 mins at Ghelsba Outpost i was full of logs with no break-age at all.. but i didn't buy any wind crystals so i couldn't stack them (>.<) so i'm omw to Sandy to buy some and sell these logs ^.^

Edited, Mon Mar 14 01:11:36 2005

Just a quick tip i've found keep my hatchet breaks to a minimum. After you use a hatchet and get a log...ever notice it seperates 1 hatchet from the stack? Auto-sort your inventory to keep the stack together and i've found you don't break NEAR as many as if you just run around logging like a madman.


Just my 3 gil.

Has anyone ever HQ synthed more than one of these, or can you not get more than one at a time?

make sure u bring stack of wind crystals or else those logs wont sell very high:P happened to me JUST now

Well i started in san d..lots of points in romfarue..so i decide to give it a try. saw it was 6500 stack, so i big 5k and to my delights, it said i got it... only stupid me bid for ONE and not a STACK.... D'oh.

Here's what I know:

First of all, don't try to go logging without at least 5 hatchets. You are able to buy hatchets from Ostalie in San d'Oria. These are around 500 each, or a stack from AH at about 5k. Go to Ghelsba Outpost no sooner than lvl 7. run around pushing tab until you see a "Logging Point" in green. Go up to the purple arrow, and use your preset macro, see above post, or go to inventory and select hatchet, push enter, then enter again. This will start you logging. You will get one of 4 results. There are 6 kinds of log you will get at Ghelsba, without any enhancing equipment. Arrowwood, Maple, Ash, Willow, Holly, Elm. Using wind crystals you can synthesize Lumber. Lumber is stackable, logs are not. At beginning levels you can only make Arrowwood and Maple lumber. Everthing else you will have to store at single logs in your inventory. It is possible to synthesize Ash but until you hit level 5 more often than not you will fail. DO NOT TRY TO SYNTHESIZE WILLOW, HOLLY, OR ELM. These are strickly level 6 and up.

1. You failed to cut anything. Repeat on same tree until you get one of the next options.

2. You break your hatchet. Use another hatchet on tree until you get one of the next optoins.

3. You break your hatchet, but cut a ****** log. Use another hatchet on three until you get the next option.

4. You sucessfully cut a ******* log. This Logging Point is finished, you are unable to use it again, until next "spawn."

VERY IMPORTANT:
You will be able to cut a piece of wood from every logging point. The only time a logging poing will go away is when you cut a log, without breaking your hatchet. Do no leave a logging point until you have done this.

The mobs in the first level of Ghelsba are lvl 6-8 mobs. So if you are trying to make money, and are level 10 or so, I suggest you leave most of your armor in your safe, so you have plenty of room for logs. In the beginning you will be running back to the AH a lot to sell the room eating logs. When you get to lvl 5 or 6 and can synthesize most of the lumber it becomes a lot more efficient. You will not make too much money, even when you synthesize into lumber. The wind crystals are not cheap, and often will only break even. The biggest money maker if the ELM LOG. Do not try to synthesize these or else you will lose them. On Leviathan, they sell for 2-2.5k each log. I average about 2 elm logs per hatchet. This more than pays for the stack of hatchets and wind crystals, and essentially pays for your craft leveling, and then some. There are other logging places i.e. Jugner Forest, Kazham (Yughotta Forest) not sure on spelling. These places will give you better logs, but require higher levels to keep from constant agro. Ghelsba can get sort of crowded from time to time. There are usually about 4 logging points, and sometimes you will be fighting higher level players for them. Just be Patient. There are plenty to go around. if you do not see any just keep running from one side to the other pushing tab until you find one. then push * and you will lock onto it. After this I suggest using macro, and cutting fast. The quicker you cut, the more you cut, the fast you make money. Good Luck.

my smithing was 1 and I've made 4 hatchets but that was outof 12.

I bought one in san doria im fairly new to the game, how do you use? i see target logging point up as a response but that doesnt tell me anything, how do you get this point?

I bought a hatchet for 1000gil from the AH.
Went to the logging point in Gheslba Outpost.
Used the hatchet, and it broke after smacking it ONCE into the tree!
I got a maple something log (one piece) and the hatchet was gone!

Now how can you make "good" use of logging if you spend more on tools that break than what you get out of it?

HEY HOW THE BLOODY HELL DO I USE IT? lol. IM trying to figure out how to log in the woods of San'D'oria

These are also sold in Kazham.